Mong Tong Shine at the 2024 Bali Joyland Festival

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Mong Tong are destined for cult status. That much I'm sure. For those fortunate to have attended the 2024 Joyland Festival in Bali, this was a gig that will be seared deeply into the memory for a long, long time to come. The setting was just perfect. Just imagine a sultry late night in the tropical paradise that is Bali with gentle waves caressing the sandy shores close to where the modestly-sized stage had been set up.  When the Taiwanese electronic duo emerged, they promptly tied black cloths around their heads to cover their eyes. Incredibly, they would play blindfolded!  Experiencing Mong Tong's music live is quite a different proposition to listening to their recorded songs, which although brilliant, are more subtle and laid back. Live, though, the music takes on a psycadellic dimension, being notably less melodic but far more intense and catharic. The music was so immersive that the past and future disolved into irellevancy for me and only the moment mattered. But time
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Agni Pratistha Joins the Topless Hall of Fame thanks to ELLE!!!

Well, well, well. Would ya believe it?

Former Miss Indonesia, Agni Pratistha, has only gone and shocked so-called “polite society” by joining the growing ranks of homegrown celebrities in Indonesia’s very own Topless Hall of Fame!

Here she finds herself in the esteemed company of leggy model Davina Veronica Hariadi, Javanese wonderbabe Tiara Lestari and second-rate actress Andi Soraya – to name but a few!

Rather ironically it seems to me, Agni chose not to ease off the bra straps for one of the “Lad’s Rags” like FHM or Playboy but instead opted for the Indonesian version of the French style magazine ELLE as the publication to showcase her refined sensuality.

The French, as we all know, are a dapper hand at this sort of stuff and while they do sometimes get a little too offbeat for my tastes – that butter scene from Last Tango in Paris being a good example – it has to be said that they know how to take a very good sensual photograph or three.

Enjoy.Agni Pratistha ELLEC'est une fille sympa, Agni

Agni Pratistha ELLEThe classic black socks shot - a technique used in photography to accentuate the contrast between what the model is and is not wearing. The ruffled white sheets allude to feisty goings on.

Agni Pratistha ELLENo you’re not wearing X-ray specs – that’s a see-through jersey she’s wearing!

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